In Belize, Global “Gay” Movement’s Legal Roadshow Comes to Town
Ten years ago, the late, great American jurist Robert Bork wrote a short book entitled Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges. He described how the “American disease” of judicial legislating—activists using constitutional courts “to outflank majorities and nullify their votes” on controversial social issues—was becoming a global phenomenon. Among other examples, Bork noted a [...]
Fertility 2.1
Fertility is plummeting around the globe and countries are at a loss to solve the problems created by aging and population decline. Without robust workforces it will be impossible for African countries with emergent fiscal systems to sustain any kind of social protection floor in the future. While countries negotiate a document to address the challenges countries and [...]
Give them Condoms!
If only women in sub-saharan Africa would finally stop having more than 3 children each… This is what the head of the UNFPA just communicated to UN member states at a UN meeting on migration and development, in more politically correct terms. [...]
Lesbian TV Hostess Announces Pregnancy, Engagement
This morning a TV news hostess announced her engagement to her colleague, a female reporter, and her pregnancy. Their confusion over the facts of life (that it takes a man to create a child) constructs a pretend world that everyone else is supposed to validate. NBC’s Jenna Wolfe revealed she’s been dating foreign correspondent Stephanie [...]
LGBT try to get climate change funding
Abortion leaders have shamelessly discussed how they can tap into the massive global funding on HIV/AIDS. Now LGBT leaders are eyeing the flood of money going toward climate change. Noelene Nabulivou, from Fiji, is a member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). She proposed this theory at a panel on Development [...]
Global Abortion Lobby Stuck at the Rubicon. A Hobbit is Sneaking By…
“Though Shalt not pass!” Last week at the Commmission of the Status of Women, nations that cherish traitional values were able to halt the advance of the global abortion lobby towards abortion as a human right. Despite attempting to do so for over 40 yrs, nations and groups that want abortion to be a human [...]
US, EU Ask to Delete “Inherent Right to Life, Liberty” at UN
As countries are deadlocked over negotiations going late into the night at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the US and European Union have played a deadly card. One that contradicts a foundational principle of citizens and civilizations worldwide, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. [...]
Had the woman been a man… Comments on the ECHR ruling of X and others v. Austria on homosexual adoption and the abandonment of natural law.
Director of the ECLJ. The Court establishes that the impossibility of second-parent adoption in a same-sex relationship is discriminatory when such adoption is possible for unmarried heterosexual couples, although the exclusion of the biological parent. The reasoning may be thus summarised: If the woman had been a man, the adoption would have been possible, so it [...]
Why “Abortion as a Human Right” Is More Dangerous for Women
The World Health Organization and the UN Commissioner on Human Rights have both released guidelines that assume abortion is a human right and should have no limits. Abortion for all nine months, with no legal protections for mother or baby. Here is what happens when there are virtually no restrictions. In the state of Maryland, [...]
Homosexual Advocates Demand a Ban on Therapy
Help for people experiencing unwanted same-sex attraction should be denied – that was the theme of an event held in the Church Center across the street from the UN last week. This article “Jay Bakker’s LGBT Power Struggle” focused on one panelist, a controversial figure in Evangelical circles. He not only read the article, he [...]
Susan Rice’s Aborted Candidacy for Secretary of State
NBC News is reporting that Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN, is removing herself from consideration as Secretary of State. While the opposition to her candidacy was fueled by her part in the Benghazi scandal, what is not likely to get reported in the post-mortems of her aborted nomination is her undiplomatic conduct as [...]
Former Prostituted Woman to Speak on UN Panel
Within the CEDAW Committee’s hall of shame, telling China to decriminalize prostitution holds a prize spot. In a promising turn of events, UN Women, the two-year old agency tasked with handling all-things-women at the UN, will highlight a woman who escaped from prostitution. The “Survivors Forum” is a panel discussion hosted by UN Women this [...]
Should alternative forms of marriage and family become normative?
Since the 1960s most Western societies have experienced a shift from traditional forms of marriage and family to complex alternative forms of marriage and family. In the past years growing support for LGBT rights by world leaders and organizations has enthused the idea that LGBT forms of marriage and family should be considered normative and [...]
Conscience Rights in 15 Seconds
How would you explain the right to follow one’s conscience? It’s become a huge issue in the U.S. with the Obama administration requiring employers to pay for insurance that covers abortion and contraception. Even more directly, the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has told governments that “laws and policies that impede access [...]
Human Rights Official Riles Up UN Delegates, Fire Alarm Goes Off
Yesterday was UN Day. A day to celebrate the accomplishments of the world’s only universal international organization, and the progress of the world’s nations towards a brighter more peaceful future. But UN delegates at the third committee meeting of the 67th plenary session of the General Assembly were more concerned with highlighting overreaching by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. [...]
Latvia: A remarkable Pro-Life campaign followed by an official conference in the Parliament on the “right to life”
Between August and October 2012 the small Baltic country of Latvia has been the place of a creative and effective Pro-Life campaign aimed at reopening the public debate over abortion, in a country with a very high level of abortion and a law demographic rate. A specific aim of the campaign is also to introduce [...]
Group Claims Obama Admin Foreign Policy and UN Pushing Sexual Rights Agenda
An International Family advocacy group has launched a campaign to expose diplomatic pressure directed toward poor developing countries to advance sexual rights including withholding humanitarian aid to assure it is done. Family Watch International in collaboration with the Foundation for African Culture and Heritage, and other pro-family organizations released a documentary Cultural Imperialism: The Sexual Rights Agenda on You Tube [...]
Polygamists and Sexual Rights
Marriage advocates warn that same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy. Lest we forget why polygamy is not a good thing, this article shows how it degrades women and the marriage bond. Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal This comment, however, should put Western elites in their place who champion ‘sexual rights’: “Lamine Camara, 22, a student [...]
Brazil Notary Formalizes Three-Person Civil Union
A three-person civil union was accepted by a notary in Brazil who argued “what we considered a family before isn’t necessarily what we would consider a family today,” reports the BBC. Public Notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues says the man and two women are entitled because the law does not prevent it. Regina Beatriz Tavares [...]
Is Religious Freedom Being Intentionally Eroded, Not Merely Overlooked?
Soon after President Obama took office, astute observers noticed a one word change in official pronouncements. That one word carries huge implications, yet arrived with no explanation. This mystery may now be understood as what’s behind some of the most contentious international and domestic policy decisions of the Obama administration — the contraception mandate and [...]